June 14, 2009
What Is Psoriatic Arthritis?
Psoriatic arthritis is a particular type of inflammatory arthritis that affects roughly twenty percent of those suffering from the chronic skin condition called Psoriasis. Psoriatic arthritis occurs much more frequently among those that have a particular tissue type. The tissue type most affected by psoriatic arthritis is HLA-B27. For the most part, treatment of psoriatic arthritis is quite similar to treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Mostly treatment involves treating patients with anti-inflammatory drugs, though I believe that an advantage to natural medicine therapies are that the same relief is effected, yet that a deeper cause is more fully addressed as well. For example, rubbing emu oil into the affected areas, brings ant-inflammatory medicine directly to the affected areas, particularly where the joints do not lie very deep beneath the skin s surface. It has been shown that a combination of emu...